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Boomer Brains and Smart Media

By: Pamela Rutledge · May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

As a baby-boomer and media psychologist, articles about positive approaches to aging catch my attention. What I love about the baby-boomer generation is that they do tend to go about things with a kind of self-focused all or nothing enthusiasm. According to an article by Katie Hafner “Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll…Uh…” [...]

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Tags: Education · Media Psychology

Cognitive Psychology, Positive Psychology and Sustainable Jobs

By: Pamela Rutledge · May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

David Brooks has an op-ed called “The Cognitive Age” in the New York Times that I think is a must-read. He talks about current perceptions of globalization–how it has become a popular paradigm for explaining change–especially change we don’t like. Brooks argues that it is the wrong paradigm, because it doesn’t explain what is really [...]

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Tags: Media Psychology · Social Change · Technology